Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from March, 2012

A Debris In A Stellar

As I walk the shadow becomes foreboding upon me. I gaze to the sky and the blue one has lost its color. What a breezy night. I can see air comes out from my nose. Where are the stars? I think they were all destroyed by the city's blinding light. All I can see just the moon. Alone, she sometimes hides behind the clouds. The scars written on her tells of a thousand years story. Did she suffer? Did she cried when each and every scar carved upon her body? Have she become traumatized by those inflicting wounds? I wonder if she hides from the sun. The feeling of the unworthy -- the feeling of becoming someone; a failure, a betrayer; A shattered hope in a lucid dream. Are those scars shied her away? She might be hiding from the sun because the light reveals the scars. It makes her unpretty. An ugly duckling sitting there, enthroned with a prince charming. Oh, how unsightly it is. How unworthy of her to be pair with a man of perfect. I wish I could understand this. Her sun i...

That Was Not What I Meant

A post by friend on Facebook shared a link of Sandy Sandhoro singing "Kompor Meleduk" , a song originally sung by the late artist Benyamin Sueb or Bang Ben. My first impression of listening to a piece of my want-to-play-it-badly song being composed badly was making me a harsh comment about the song being played wrongly. I said, the original song is more complicated than that song. Then, he said it was about time of me to judge a song not because it was a hard piece. Yeah, he was right. We were planning to play God Bless songs on stage where the crowd just plebeian listeners who wont even know what song we would play. I might sound judgmental, but honestly I don't like that composition. What on earth was that song? The composer really don't get it. My other friend noted that I should have been listening to him when he sang the song in Rolling Stone Mags show. Well, sorry I wasn't there. Sandy Sandhoro might nailed it, but this song was not. It felt like robo...